PREFACE to the Special Issue of the Asian Journal of Business Ethics based on the Eighth World Business Ethics Forum: Emerging from Crisis through Socially Responsible and Ethical Business

We solicited submissions from all the presenters at the Eighth World Business Ethics Forum (WBEF 8).We were especially interested in compiling a set of papers that between them would apply diverse theoretical perspectives and research methodologies to investigate the ethical challenges and dilemmas confronting both practitioners and scholars in the Asian context during and after COVID-19.Although environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were prominent research themes at WBEF 8, none of the associated papers found their way into this special issue.Both ESG and the SDGs have gained attention among private and institutional investors, along with other stakeholder groups, whose concerns extend beyond traditional corporate social responsibility (CSR) to scrutinizing companies' track records of social and environmental impacts and responsible governance practices.For completeness, we provide brief overviews of these two topics next.